3 Aug
2006
3 Aug
'06
10:01 a.m.
How much has the sales side changed? I mean, I suspect
for a typical user just
doing some word processing etc., a simple bitmapped display is fine - they
don't *need* the high speed of a card that has a lot more features.
Try running Mac OS X or Vista on such a display (or WinXP, X-Windows with
a fancy window manager). You'll quickly find that modern OS's require 3D
accelerated graphics cards, and that it isn't exactly easy to turn off all
of those functions. This is a personal source of irritation with me, I
don't want to waste system resources with all of those "gee wiz" features!
In fact the inability to turn stuff I don't want off that has been added in
the last two versions, and them removing stuff I do want is really starting
to turn me off on the Mac.
OTOH, I do want a high-end graphics card and a high-end monitor for running
my Adobe DTP apps. It's also nice to have such a setup for surfing. In all
honesty for the most part, the rest of what I run could be done on a VT420
and I'd be just fine. On anything other than my Mac, I view a graphics
display as a way to get a lot of terminal windows (and this is part of what
I use it on the Mac for). But then I am not the typical user, and that
probably includes on CLASSICCMP.
Zane